Pronouns & Nouns

Phóp gan ìik khráng na khá (See you again)

Last time we have learned about pronouns and possessive pronouns and I think that you can remember some already.

Now we're going to combine them with nouns and then make a simple sentence from this step.

For thai language, adjective always comes after noun.

---> pattern: NOUN+ ADJECTIVE


If you want to say "my dog", you have to say "dog my"

now, let's make it in Thai!

"my dog" -------- măa khăwngchán (female speaker) บ้านของฉัน
"our house" ------ bâan khăwngrao บ้านของเรา



Let's know more vocabularies:

house = bâan บ้าน
ród = wheeled car รถ
roongrian school โรงเรียน
roongraem = hotel โรงแรม
hâwng = room ห้อง
gràpăo = bag กระเป๋า
naalígaa = watch นาฬิกา
năngsǔe = book หนังสือ
dinsăw = pencil ดินสอ
pàakgaa = pen ปากกา
dtó = table โต๊ะ
sàmùd = notebook สมุด
thooráthàd = TV โทรทัศน์
thoorásàp = telephone โทรศัพท์
tang/ ngoen = money ตังค์/ เงิน
chaa = tea ชา
gaafae = coffee กาแฟ
aahăan = food อาหาร
pràthêed = country ประเทศ
phûean = friend เพื่อน
(khun)khruu = teacher (คุณ) ครู
nákrian = student นักเรียน


phâw = father พ่อ
mâe = mother แม่
phîisăao = older sister พี่สาว
phîichaay = older brother พี่ชาย
náwngsăao = younger sister น้องสาว
náwnchaay = younger brother น้องชาย

Exercise: translate into thai

our teacher = ............................................
my coffee (female) = ...............................
their TV = ................................................
her mother = ...........................................
your house = ...........................................
my car (male) = ......................................
his room = ...............................................
its food = ..................................................


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Keys:

our teacher = khruu khăwngrao ครูของเรา
my coffee (female) = gaafae khăwngchán กาแฟของฉัน
their TV = thooráthàd khăwngpphûakkhăo โทรทัศน์ของพวกเขา
her mother = mâe khăwngthoe แม่ของเธอ
your house = bâan khăwngkhun บ้านของคุณ
my car (male) = ród khăwngphŏm รถของผม
his room = hâwng khăwngkháo ห้องของเขา
its food = aahăan khăwngman อาหารของมัน


I hope that this can help you learn more or less na khá. Don't forget to remember some vocabularies after every lesson.

See you in next post and we're goign to make a sentence!


Chôokdii khá! (Good luck) โชคดี

Pronouns & Possessive Pronouns

Pronouns

Thai pronouns are commonly dropped when speaking. There are many pronouns either polite or impolite and slang used among Thai people.

Note: Subjects and objects in Thai we use the same form.

Here are basic pronouns:


phŏm ---------------------- "I, me" (male speaker) ผม
chán/ chăn -----------------"I, me" (female speaker) ฉัน

khun -----------------------"You" คุณ

phûakrao/ rao ------------- "We, us" พวกเรา/ เรา

phûakháo ------------------ "They, them" พวกเขา

kháo ----------------------- "He, him" เขา

thoe ----------------------- "She, her" เธอ

"oe" pronounced as number (without "r" sound)


Possessive pronouns

Possessive pronouns can be made easily by adding the word "khăwng" ของ (of) in front of a pronoun.

* "-aw" pronounced as in "law"

Note: Possessive adjective and possessive pronoun have the same form.

"my, mine" ----------------- khăwngphŏm (male speaker) ของผม
"my, mine" ----------------- khăwngchchán (female speaker) ของฉัน

"your, yours" --------------- khăwngkhun ของคุณ

"our, ours" ------------------ khăwngphûakrao/ khăwngrao ของพวกเรา/ ของเรา

"their, theirs" --------------- khăwngphûakháo ของพวกเขา

"his" ------------------------ khăwngkháo ของเขา

"her, hers" ------------------ khăwngthoe ของเธอ

Tones in thai language

Tones in Thai language


Thai is the tonal language which means different tone distinguishes different meaning.

Here, this is just brief expalnation about the tones for I supposed that you have learned and known some Thai before.

There are five tones in Thai language:

* Please notice tone markers from example word


Tone ------ Example word ----- Meaning

Middle ----------maa ------------- to come (มา)

Low ------------ màa ------------- no meaning
Faling ---------- mâa ------------- no meaning
High ------------máa ------------- horse (ม้า)

Rising ---------- măa ------------- dog (หมา)


Remark: Not every tone that always has meaning.